Divide and conquer: Russia's war enters the grey-zone

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  Drones over Poland.

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  Mig fighters traversing Estonian airspace.

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  Telecom cables damaged deep beneath the Baltic Sea.

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  Airports paralysed by cyber attacks and quadcopters.

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  Mysterious explosions and assassinations.

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  Bot swarms pumping out propaganda to disrupt elections.

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  None of these on its own is a carcass-belly,

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  but together they are adding up to something new and dangerous.

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  Vladimir Putin is waging a grey-zone campaign against NATO, a cheap,

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  deniable and calibrated effort to unsettle Europe that is carefully short of outright conflict.

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  We are not at war, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz said this week,

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  but we are no longer at peace, either.

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  The damage has never been serious, so what is the point?

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  Mr Putin knows he cannot defeat NATO in a stand-up fight.

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  Yet his aim, given the grand sweep of his writings and speeches, is more than just to be a nuisance.

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